How to reduce order errors in your restaurant: from cashier to kitchen to customer
Every wrong order costs three things: a dish remade, an annoyed customer and time lost at rush hour. Most errors come not from careless staff but from how the order reaches the kitchen.
Five common causes and their fixes
Start with the one that happens most at your place:
- Lost modifiers: make “no onions” and “extra cheese” fields in the system that print on the kitchen ticket, not a spoken note.
- Handwritten tickets: unreadable handwriting. An order entered in the system prints clearly.
- One long ticket for all stations: route each item to its own station (grill, drinks, desserts).
- An order changing after sending: have a clear way to amend an order so the change reaches the kitchen at once.
- Nobody knows where the order is: show each order's status (preparing, ready) on the kitchen screen or to the customer.
What RAWA provides
RAWA supports item add-ons and modifiers that appear on the kitchen ticket, routing items to prep stations, a KDS kitchen screen or network kitchen printers, each order's status, and online-menu orders that reach the cashier to accept in one tap instead of being re-typed.
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What is the most common cause of order errors?
Usually modifiers that do not reach the kitchen clearly, then illegible tickets.
Is a kitchen printer enough?
Yes for a small restaurant with one station; with more than one station a screen or per-station printing helps.
Do online-menu orders arrive directly?
Yes, in the Menu tab at the cashier.
How do I measure improvement?
Record the number of remade dishes weekly before and after the change.